I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.

If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.